Question

Are there any tools out there that encapsulate the retrieval of SQL Server metadata into a nice object model?

My immediate needs are to gather these things from SQL Server 2000-2008 R2:

• Databases
• Tables
• Foreign key constraints
• Triggers

So, maybe given a SqlConnection object, I could do things like this:

var dbs = conn.GetDatabases();
var db = dbs.Single(x => x.Name == "AdventureWorks");
var tables = db.GetTables();
var triggers = db.GetAllTriggers();

Of course, those examples would be very convenient, but any sort of object model would be better than what I’m doing now. Before I build my own, is there anything out there?

Answer 1

You might want to look at SQL Server Management Objects.